Oreo-maker Mondelez, Nestle and PepsiCo face staff defections in Ukraine and pushback from workers in eastern Europe angered by the companies’ decisions to maintain some business in Russia, according to internal corporate communications reviewed by Reuters and interviews with six workers.
The emerging employee activism comes on top of Ukraine’s repeated appeals to Western companies to go beyond current sanctions and cut all commercial ties with Russia, with the mayor of Kviv calling such payments to Moscow “bloody money”.
